I just tried to watch some presentation videos from Wikimania.
Some had very weak sound, some had no sound in the first minutes,
some only played the first minute and then stopped. I don't think
the Wikimania videos are unique in having such problems. Video is
new to Commons, and the expert contributors are more familiar with
still images.
How can we learn to make better videos? Are there some good
instructions? Perhaps a free instruction video (Wikibooks, but a
video instead of a book) on how to produce good videos is what we
need. In fact, the English Wikibooks has a title on "Video
Production", http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Video_Production but it
doesn't have a clear focus (pun not intended). It starts out with
discussing satellite TV and has long sections on file formats in
different operating systems.
There is a help page on Commons for converting video to the Ogg
Theora format, but that is only the last step in a long chain.
Given that video is new, how can we find and rate videos, nominate
"good/featured videos", and give advice on how to improve quality?
Is the Commons village pump enough for this? Commons has a
separate graphics village pump. Do we also need a separate video
village pump?
Current digital video cameras use hard disks or memory cards,
instead of tape cassettes. Many new models cost less than 300
euro (or dollars), some as little as 120 euro (memory card perhaps
not included). Some have a special "Youtube mode", and I guess
that kind of usage is what drives the price down. What models are
good, and what should one watch out for?
We can find free still photos on Flickr and copy them to Commons.
Is there somewhere we can find free videos and copy them? Yes, at
the Internet Archive. Somewhere else?
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
Dear ones,
Where might I get or mirror a dump of Commons media files?
> It seems worth mentioning on the front page of
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/
> It looks like the compressed XML of the ~50M description pages is ~25GB.
> It looks like wiki-team set up a dump script that posted monthly dumps to
the internet archive; in 2013 it stopped include the month+year in the
title; in 2016 it stopped altogether.
https://archive.org/details/wikimediacommons
Hi Patrick,
That screenshot is of the Wikipedia app, not the Commons app. :) But
hopefully the Wikipedia app team will see your post.
Best regards,
Josephine
On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 01:42, Patrick Fiset <patrick.fiset(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The image now attached.
>
> On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 11:40, Patrick Fiset <patrick.fiset(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>> Since some while, the 3 "read more" articles description is now
>> truncated, as you can see here :
>>
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>>
>>
>> It would be better to at least show the full first phrase.
>>
>> Could this be done ?
>>
>> Or can I revert to an older version of the app ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>> On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 10:04, Josephine Lim <josephinelim86(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Hope you are safe and well. We've just released v2.13 of the Commons
>>> Android app[1] to beta, which includes:
>>>
>>> - A new media details UI, which includes the ability to zoom and pan
>>> around images
>>> - When the user uploads a picture with a geotag, the app will check for
>>> Nearby places that need photos around that location, and one is found, it
>>> will ask the user "Is this a picture of Place X?"
>>> - Modifications to Nearby filters based on user feedback
>>> - Bug and crash fixes for stuff that got broken by the codebase overhaul
>>>
>>> Our next release will likely contain structured data integration,
>>> bookmarks for the Nearby map, and a couple of other new features.
>>>
>>> Thank you all for your support and encouragement - feedback, bug
>>> reports, and suggestions are always welcome in our GitHub repo[2]. :)
>>>
>>> [1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons
>>> [2]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Josephine / @misaochan (Commons app project lead)
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>>
Hi all,
Hope you are safe and well. We've just released v2.13 of the Commons
Android app[1] to beta, which includes:
- A new media details UI, which includes the ability to zoom and pan
around images
- When the user uploads a picture with a geotag, the app will check for
Nearby places that need photos around that location, and one is found, it
will ask the user "Is this a picture of Place X?"
- Modifications to Nearby filters based on user feedback
- Bug and crash fixes for stuff that got broken by the codebase overhaul
Our next release will likely contain structured data integration, bookmarks
for the Nearby map, and a couple of other new features.
Thank you all for your support and encouragement - feedback, bug reports,
and suggestions are always welcome in our GitHub repo[2]. :)
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons
[2]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/
Best regards,
Josephine / @misaochan (Commons app project lead)
Hoi,
Hay Kranen created a proof of concept where Commons is searched for
pictures that (per standard) use a "depicts" statement.. The search is
limited to existing labels in Wikidata and to the search has as its result
whatever is available in commons..
Use for instance "appelmoes" and you get six results [1], [2].
At this time you can get a "detail" screen and it provides standard
functions available. The functionality can be prettified. Essential is that
everything will be internationalised / localised. The other thing is that
I hope is that functionality like this becomes standard Commons
functionality...
On a more philosophical note, we are a WIKI, it follows that we will work
to make more and more pictures searchable in this way and that we get more
and more labels in all of our languages. It is however NOT necessary that
from the start it needs to be perfect. Please do not let perfection be the
enemy of the good. Improvements is what we should aim for and perfection is
what we aspire to.
Thanks,
GerardM
Oh and again Hay, thank you so much.
[1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/sdsearch/#q=haswbstatement:P180=Q618345
[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appelmoes.png
